Possibly strays from Cupboard: 5/ 53
Compiled by Samuel Blithe and continued by William Grigg. Includes memoranda about:
(1) parish of St Edward, Cambridge, nd
(2) rebuilding of manor house at Risby in Walesby (Lincs), 1694-1710
(3) Tetney (Lincs), nd and 1719
(4) Dullingham, nd (after 1698)
(5) Caldecote, nd (after 1680)
(6) Girton land, 1686-1712
(7) Foxton
Master's memorandum book, apparently begun by William Grigg and continued in other hands.
Includes memoranda on Cambridge University affairs, Clare College finances, properties, disputes, gardening etc, and numerous copies of earlier documents, including account of College finances in 1654. Also includes copies of documents in various disputes, chiefly concerning University, 1768-1840. With index.
Masters' memorandum book, containing copy of 1359 Statutes, brief history of Clare College and list of Masters to 1781.
Includes:
(1) genealogy of Elizabeth de Clare, undated
(2) case of Robert Hagar (admitted 1747) about his Fellowship (on the Old Foundation), undated (1763)
(3) notes on elections of Masters and Fellows, 1693-1787
(4) Act of Parliament about Blythe Benefaction, 1763
(5) copies of, or extracts from, wills of Barnabas Oley, 1684, Robert Greene, 1721, Peter Stephen Goddard (Master), 1781, Gilbert Bouchery, 1783, and Mark Anthony Stephenson, 1790
(6) lawyers' opinions on powers of Visitors and Proctors, undated and 1770
(7) legal case concerning wrongful imprisonment by Proctor, undated (1830)
At the end, reversed:
(1) copy College orders, 1686-1809
(2) Visitors' decisions in appeals, 1799-1848, including appeal against Fellowship of William Fischer (admitted 1847), 1848. Presumably compiled by John Torkington (Master, 1781-1815), and continued by William Webb (Master, 1815-1855)
Described by J. R. Wardale as the only volume to survive the fire in the Master's Lodge and Muniment Room in 1521.
Includes detailed valuations of Library (manuscripts), chapel vestments and ornaments, plate and other utensils. Also includes lists of muniments, benefactions and elections, cartulary and accounts, and memoranda about College properties. The volume also includes information about the 1521 fire and the subsequent rebuilding of the College.
Paginated and with loose papers, apparently in the handwriting of Samuel Blithe, nd (? 1682).